[pmmail-list] Fwd: Tuesday's Joke-Gram

[James L. Vaughn]

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  Tuesday's Joke-Gram 


A watch for Bill Gates... 

Jake is struggling through an airport terminal with two huge and
obviously heavy suitcases when Bill Gates walks up to him and asks:
"Have you got the time?"

Jake sighs, not recognizing Mr. Gates, puts down the suitcases and
glances at his wrist. "It's a quarter to six", he says. 

"Hey, that's a pretty fancy watch!" exclaims Mr. Gates.

Jake brightens a little. "Yeah, it's not bad. Check this out..." He
shows him a time zone display for every time zone in the world. He hits
a few buttons and from somewhere on the watch a voice says "The time is
eleven till six" in a very West Texas accent. A few more buttons and
the same voice says something in Japanese. Jake continues "I've put in
regional accents for each city. The display is unbelievably high
quality and the voice is simply astounding." 

Bill Gates is dumb struck with admiration. 

"That's not all...", says Jake. He pushes a few more buttons and a tiny
but very hi-resolution map of New York City appears on the display.
"The flashing dot shows our location by satellite positioning,"
explains Jake. "View recede ten", Jake says, and the display changes to
show eastern New York state. 

"I want to buy this watch!" says Bill Gates, thinking of the potential
profits after his engineers tear it apart and then market it throughout
the world. 

"Oh, no, it's not ready for sale yet; I'm still working out the bugs",
says the inventor. "But look at this", and he proceeds to demonstrate
that "the watch is also a very creditable little FM radio receiver with
a digital tuner, a sonar device that can measure distances up to 125
meters, a pager with thermal paper printout and, most impressive of
all, the capacity for voice recordings of up to 300 standard-size
books, though I only have 32 of my favorites in there so far" says
Jake. 

"I've got to have this watch!" says Bill Gates, becoming insane with
desire. 

"No, you don't understand; it's not ready." 

"I'll give you $1,000 for it!" 

"Oh, no, I've already spent more than..." 

"I'll give you $5,000 for it!" 

"But it's just not..." 

"I'll give you $15,000 in cash for it!" And Bill Gates pulls out his
bulging wallet.

Jake stops to think. He's only put about $8,500 into materials and
development, and with $15,000 he can make another one and have it ready
for merchandising in maybe a year or so...

Bill Gates frantically waves the cash in front of Jake: "Here it is,
right here and now, $15,000! Take it or leave it!" 

Jake abruptly makes his decision: "Okay," he agrees as he peels off the
watch and hands it to the stranger. 

They make the exchange and Bill Gates prances happily away. 

"Hey, wait a minute", calls Jake after the stranger.

Bill Gates turns around warily and says: "What?"

Jake points to the two heavy suitcases he had been trying to wrestle
through the terminal. "Don't forget your batteries." 



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